{"id":7582,"date":"2024-03-07T18:01:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/?p=7582"},"modified":"2024-03-07T18:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T18:02:47","slug":"fred-loring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/fred-loring\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Loring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"372\" height=\"463\" src=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/372-FRED-W-Loring-fotor-202403079580-WF.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/372-FRED-W-Loring-fotor-202403079580-WF.jpg 372w, https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/372-FRED-W-Loring-fotor-202403079580-WF-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 85vw, 372px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Fred W. Loring, in his campaign costume, with his mule `Evil Merodach.&#8217; Taken about 48 hours before he was brutally murdered by Apache&#8211;Mohaves while en route from Prescott, Arizona Territory to San Bernardino, Ca., by stage. Loring had been with the Wheeler expedition as general assistant and correspondent and was returning to the East with a mind stored with rare adventure and scenic wonders.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Timothy H. O&#8217;Sullivan, 1871.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FRED W. LORING AND HIS MULE &#8220;EVIL MERODACH&#8221; PRESCOTT, ARIZONA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fred W. Loring, in his campaign costume, with his mule `Evil Merodach.&#8217; Taken about 48 hours before he was brutally murdered by Apache&#8211;Mohaves while en route from Prescott, Arizona Territory to San Bernardino, Ca., by stage. Loring had been with the Wheeler expedition as general assistant and correspondent and was returning to the East with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/fred-loring\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fred Loring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7585,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7582\/revisions\/7585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}